The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-22


mIoHIGAN salt manufacturers are consid-
erably depressed owing to the outlook, as
the present freight charges are so high that
little profit is to be made.
A HEAVY fall of snow in Central New
Mexico on the 18Th pat the ground in fine
condition for spring planting. The pro
tracted dry spell had alarmed the farmers
and stocknen. Stock is still in fair condi-
tion but was beginning to suffer from the
drouth.
THE jury in the case of John b. ManLix,
formerly assignee Of Archbishop Purcell,
of Cincinnati, charged with embezzlement,
were discharged recently, being unable to
agree
The three constitutional amendments,
voted on in California, We're all defeated.
The first provided a method for the selec
ton Of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; ;
the second for an increase of salaries of the
Supreme Judges, and the third, cities over
1O,O3O population to be empowered to make
their own city charter The proposed new
charter for San Francisco was also de-
featcd.
ELIJAH WATERS and T. Wagner engaged
in a bare knucEle fight at Napa, Cal, the
other night. In the first round Waters was
struck on the head and fell unconscious,
and remained so until he died.
MCGRATH's wall paper warehouse, Chi
cagO, was burned early on the morning of
the 18th. Two firemen lost their lives. The
loss Of property amounted to S3o0,00O.
THE Southern and Central Pacific rail-
road stockholders at a meeting in San
Francisco recently reelected their old
officers.
GEORGE WAENER, teacher of Williams
burg, Wis, killed a refractory popn named
Rugsbusch by u too severe punishment.
Warner fed.
THE journeymcn tGilors of Grand Rapids,
Mich, have struck because the masters re-
fuse to sign an agreement with a new sched-
ule of prices inserted.
THE strike Of the architectural irOnwork-
ers Of Cincinnati has resulted in a compro-
mise and the men have returned to work.
THE remains of President Lincoln were
taken from their secret resting place and
inferred in the north vault of Oak Ridge
Cemetery at Springfield Ill, April IA, the
twenty-second anniversary Of his assassin
alton.
A ROCK slide occurred in the deep cut on
the works of Kyuer Higbec and Bernard
on the Midland grade, near Buena Vista,
Cal, on the 14th, in which ten men were
killed and several moro or less injured.
A. J. CHAPMAN, a wealthy farmer of
Holmes County, o., was burned to death
the other day while burning brush.
Amour twenty i've creditors of Clapp q
Davis, wholesale jewelers., who failed for
SZ00OOO, held an indignation meeting at
Chicago on the 18th, at which there we're
many angry intimations that the firms al
legged collapse was q barefaced sWindle.
a ATERRIBLE thunder and hail storm passed
over Niles, 0. ,@on the 18th. Mrs. Michael
Maloney. aged forty, was struck dead by
lightning while standing ut an upstairs
window.
Two hundred furnacemen IN the Union
Steel Company's works, Chicago, have
struck against the Poles employed as labor
ers.
A TORNADO ravagcd st. Clairsville, o., on
the 18th, exteudmg nearly to Wheeling, W.
Va. At St. Clairsville the damage was put
at 500. O9O
THE Board of Trade of Indianapolis, Ind.
has adopted a strong protest against the
Interstate Commerce law as at present con
strued, and especially appealing to the
commission against the haul section.